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fully-realized works to use this technique were the 20 prints for an illustrated book entitled
Jazz.The prints in Jazz replicated the original paper cutouts through a pochior, or a fine stencil
technique.The majority of the prints were inspired by the theater, folklore and the circus, and
are accompanied by pages of large handwritten text on the artist’s thoughts and inspiration
from music.The title Jazz is intended to engender themes of improvisation and energy.The
planes of pure color and bold abstracted forms present in Matisse’s Jazz pochoirs are sited as
a major influence on the following generation of artists that proscribed to similar “hard-edged”
abstraction. Duthuit Books 22. [25,000/35,000]